cilium

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.

   “It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.”

2. isim One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
3. isim One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
4. isim An eyelash.